Word: mexico
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wills runs this three-year-old project that recruits American college students to go to Mexico City and work with and for the poor. Each year the program concentrates on a different social service project. Last year, the group built a public area for children to play in, and this year, the participants plan to teach English to the poor...
Although the center is affiliated with the Catholic church, the nine students who worked last year with Wills and Mexico's poor included Jews, Protestants and Catholics not affiliated with the center. The participants also represented five colleges, including Harvard...
Bruce S. Miller '90, one of four Harvard students who went on the service project last year, agrees. He says he found his stay in the Mexico City slum very disagreeable but in retrospect, he felt the project was a worthwhile experience...
...several weeks fighting bureacracy and immigration red tape, to get the child into America. Once there, Miller's father, an ear, nose and throat specialist diagnosed the child as having tonsilitis complicated by pneumonia and operated on him. Last Miller heard, the child was fine and had returned to Mexico...
...science students being "intense" or "grindy." Soon after I began interviewing students and professors in these disciplines, however, my ideas about science students drastically changed. The students I spoke with had enormously varied interests and backgrounds; there was a football player from Hawaii, a female violinist from New Mexico, the captain of the Harvard men's sailing team, a Canadian woman active in nuclear war deterrence, a female ROTC member whose sister fights fires in Chicago, and a gregarious Black woman engineer who is involved not only in many campus organizations, but also maintains two jobs in Boston...